Curated Itinerary
Ferrara Rationalism RoadBook — Four Stops from Savonuzzi’s Addizione to Rossoni’s Tresigallo (1928–1939)
Four stops through interwar Ferrara and its plain: the Stadio Paolo Mazza, the monumental Acquedotto on Piazza XXIV Maggio and […]
Four stops through interwar Ferrara and its plain: the Stadio Paolo Mazza, the monumental Acquedotto on Piazza XXIV Maggio and the Scuola Alda Costa — all three by the municipal engineer Carlo Savonuzzi — then the rationalist foundation town of Tresigallo, twenty-five kilometres east. Read the full story in the dedicated article A Stadium, an Aqueduct and a New Town: A Ferrara Rationalism RoadBook (1928–1939), by Stefano Vigolo.
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Stadio Paolo Mazza
Inaugurated on 20 September 1928 as the Stadio Littorio Comunale, the ground that Ferrara now knows as Stadio Paolo Mazza is the fifth-oldest Italian…
Acquedotto di Ferrara
The monumental aqueduct on Piazza XXIV Maggio is the most theatrical infrastructure of interwar Ferrara. Carlo Savonuzzi designed it between 1930 and 1932 as…
Scuola Elementare Alda Costa, Ferrara
A red-brick rationalist schoolhouse built between 1932 and 1933 by Ferrara’s municipal engineer Carlo Savonuzzi, the building rises near the old hospital…
Tresigallo — Edmondo Rossoni’s Razionalist New Town (1933–1939)
Tresigallo is the most intact città di fondazione of the razionalist period and the only fascist-era foundation town to also hold the official designation of…
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